Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Benin and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Flash Fearless to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
Lou Reed,
Janne Schatter,
Quantec,
Colin Newman,
Talk Talk,
The Real Kids,
Moss Icon,
Skarface,
ABC,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
New York Dolls,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Nils Olav,
Bush Tetras,
Gong,
Depeche Mode,
Boz Scaggs,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Arcadia,
Anthony Braxton,
Visage,
Soulsonic Force,
Sexual Harrassment,
Blossom Toes,
Erykah Badu,
Marine Girls,
Sparks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Deepchord,
Barrington Levy,
Donny Hathaway,
Magazine,
Royal Trux,
Sun City Girls,
Yaz,
Kenny Larkin,
Severed Heads,
the Association,
Altered Images,
This Heat,
Jeff Lynne,
Wolf Eyes,
Soft Cell,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Quando Quango,
Vladislav Delay,
Outsiders,
Crispian St. Peters,
UT,
Thee Headcoats,
Public Image Ltd.,
Easy Going,
Tears for Fears,
Rapeman,
Eurythmics,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
R.M.O.,
Slave,
Young Marble Giants,
Deadbeat,
Roy Ayers,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.